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Andy Holland

@l4lad.bsky.social
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Exbrit . Now proud Maltese citizen. Live in South East Sicily. Father, husband, golfer. LFC believer, atheist, anti tory.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
'Every day Infantino remains in power is a fresh stain on an institution whose reputation is on the floor' www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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There can be no letup. Humiliated Infantino must stand down at Fifa or be removed | Nick Ames
Uefa’s decisive call for a boycott and declaration of no confidence must be the opening salvos in a concerted push to dethrone the game’s global leader
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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
something utterly beautiful about the fact that the most hyped, gilded, oversold, VVIP’d football game of all time has been an absolute stinking turnip. sport will always find a way!
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Just a reminder, if you deface the Reflecting Pool you will be arrested…. Oops wrong picture
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/06/2026
World Cup 2026 visa chaos: from referee Omar Artan to Iranian officials – who is affected?
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World Cup 2026 visa chaos: from referee Omar Artan to Iranian officials – who is affected?
Fifa has found its tournament squarely caught up in the second Trump administration’s aggressive border restrictions
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
What on Earth?! This video is from Greenpeace. 💔
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Two Reform Councillors had died before they were elected. Five have quit because they never actually wanted to be Councillors. At least four have been fired because they are vile racists. One is complaining because he thought he'd be an MP. One was completely made up Clown party
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
crazy how you can literally see bayern harry kane morphing into england tournament harry kane in real time
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
'Farage has pulled out of Kuenssberg' is a mental image I don't think any of us needed.
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Seán Clarke @seanclarke.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Q9: you accepted £5m for your personal security and _subsequently_ your house was subject to an arson attack. You are someone who can spend £5m guarding against a non-problem and turn it into a real one? And you should run the country?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Holy shit that list is so fucked up. It's not remotely the same as the best songs or even the ones you hear the most. But when you force yourself to choose quickly it's amazing what your brain insists on.
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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Deeply jealous of the Artemis crew, who are currently further away from Nigel Farage, Andrew Tate, Lucy Connolly, Lee Anderson and Ann Widdecombe than any human has ever been.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Activists have been putting up these signs around the Fairford Airbase from which the US is bombing Iran. Lets not let their activism go to waste.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
that bleach has already been drunk
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Meanwhile, in Florida… DeSantis ordered books about Native American history and Black history to be destroyed. 😡😤🤬 #Florida #Desantis #Fascism #History #BlackHistory #NativeAmericanHistory
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
1/2 This is crucially important point. 1) "No quarter" is indeed specifically war-crime term 2) Under Geneva Conventions, after sinking an enemy ship, the attackers must "take all positive measures" to find and rescue any survivors. Text in next post No evidence US sub did so after attack, AFAIK
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
How droll to provide evidence that he is a war criminal. Make sure you save this for when the WH lawyers say he should delete it
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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every last word of this.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Breaking - GOP candidate for Gov of Minnesota drops out. Says he cant support federal “retribution” against Minnesotans… @startribune.com www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...
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Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota
His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Losers Gullis and Ben Bradley, now possibly disgraced Scott Benton will join Reform. Farage admits his party lacks experience. But recruits the morons and the pisstakers to make up for that. Reform: Loitering around the Tory bins seeing what bits of their stinking rubbish they can recycle.
Tory MP who quit in gambling row may join Reform

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A former Tory MP who was forced to quit after offering to lobby for gambling investors in return for payment of up to £2,000 a day is considering joining Reform UK, The Times has been told.
Scott Benton was forced to resign last year after being exposed by a Times in-vestigation. He was filmed telling undercover reporters posing as gambling industry investors that he could lobby ministers and leak a confidential document.
Local sources said Benton was now considering standing for Reform in the constituency of Blackpool North & Fleetwood at the next election. Benton declined to comment.
A Reform source insisted Benton would be banned from standing as a candidate if he formally applied, while a Tory source said: "We wish Scott Benton well in his new party."
His defection could prove controversial and senior figures in Reform are increasingly concerned by the mass recruitment of "Tory retreads". A total of 22 former Conservative MPs have already joined Reform, leading to increasing tensions in Nigel Farage's party.
There are concerns within Reform that it will lose its status as an antiestablishment insurgent force if a large chunk of the party consists of former Tory MPs. The latest defector yesterday was Ben Bradley, who will take up a role as the party's "head of local government action".
Bradley lost his Mansfield seat at the 2024 election, having first won the constituency in 2017. He was also leader of Nottinghamshire county council from 2021 until last year.
Farage said yesterday that Reform
"will not become the Conservative Party 2.0" but added that his party's
"biggest weakness is a lack of
experience".
"We need people with experience of politics, experience of life, experience of management, who've been there before," he told a press conference."Scott Benton is a dirty rotten scoundrel," says Dale Dodwell, the manager of the tattoo parlour Monsters Ink. "He keeps putting up pictures of him eating loads of food. What about the homeless? All good for you because you have loads of money."
Dodwell's words symbolise the feeling that many local people have given up on politics.
On 2 May, a byelection will take place to replace Benton, who on Monday evening resigned as the Conservative MP for Blackpool South.
It presents another political headache for Rishi Sunak before an election that polls suggest will be won by Labour.
Benton was caught last year by undercover reporters for the Times posing on behalf of a fake investment fund saying he would lobby ministers on behalf of the gambling industry and leak a confidential policy for up to £4,000 a
month. He was found to be
in breach of MPs' standards
and he was facing a local vote on whether to remove him after his ban from the House of Commons
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Surely it’s a joke?
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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This is SOME recommendation. Thanks, Ed. 🎤
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism". These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Police in Catania seize over 1,500 illegal fireworks discovered by a courier service at their hub. They contained a total of 255kg of explosives. When police detonated just 12 of the "fireworks" in a quarry, the explosion pulverised 300kg of rocks placed over them and left a crater 5 metres wide.
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Catania, maxi sequestro di 1.500 bombe carta spedite tramite corriere - VIDEO
I primi controlli hanno confermato l’estrema pericolosità del materiale: 1.042 “bombe carta” e 522 “palloni di Maradona”
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Whatever your views on the Messina Strait bridge, this highlights the amateurish approach of Meloni’s government in general, and Matteo Salvini in particular, to a highly complex project. I have no doubt they will be arrogant enough to overrule the decision of the court and go ahead regardless.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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cdog62.bsky.social @cdog62.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I know the Tory party is a rancid rotting carcass of a party but, Christ, surely we’re all beyond sick of them now. This lot won’t get back into power but they can’t even manage to be a responsible opposition. They’re just so grimly dismal, racist and thick. They reek of inadequacy. Just go TF away.
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 13/10/2025
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This is true, and… It also reflects the assymetry in media. RW media trumpet every GOP/Trump achievement as a glorious success, because that is their job. Actual journalists see puffing up those in power as the opposite of their job.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was. "I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi." Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:
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Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com · 28/09/2025
US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America
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US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America
European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken down By the time Europe finished the job, finally, on Sunday, the golf had the last word. But, until the thrilling denouement, the lasting memory of this Ryder Cup threatened not to be a single swing of the club so much as the ugly backdrop: galleries that drifted from partisan into venomous and the organizers who let the line slide until it snapped. It didn’t happen all at once. For the first day and a half of golf’s most intense rivalry, it was New York-loud without being unruly. Then Saturday afternoon arrived and the tenor shifted. Rory McIlroy, the visiting lightning rod, kept stepping off shots as volleys of abuse landed in the quiet of his pre-shot routine. Shane Lowry played teammate and minder. Justin Thomas, not exactly a shrinking violet, began shushing his own end of the grandstand so his opponents could putt. Continue reading...
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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Autism is not a regrettable condition. It is not a disease. Bigotry and ignorance, on the other hand, are.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Just saw this on Threads:
Satirical post on Threads demonstrating that correlation isn't causation, with a curve showing ice cream sales through the year almost exactly matching shark attacks - no source link given.
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David Stubbs @davidstubbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Cunts. You are too stupid to know you are finished. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour rules against dozens of motions about Palestine being debated at party conference
Calls for sanctions on Israel and ban on trade that aids international law violations among snubbed motions
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Honest to god. I dread to think what the front pages of the tabloids are, given these are the supposedly serious papers. The immigration ‘debate’ has become a ruinous madness. (Trump also said he’d settled the war between Azerbaijan and Albania, so why are we listening to *anything* he says?)
Independent front page:

Trump tells PM:
Use the military to stop the boatsThe Times front page 

Immigration is destroying
UK, Trump tells Starmer
President says to use military to stop crossingsThe Guardian 

Trump tells Britain to
'call out the military' to control its bordersThe iPaper

Trump urges Starmer: use military to stop migrant boats
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Been a while since I had this much fun in the studio. Apart from during Mystery Hour, of course. Not sure they made this cut but there at least two occasions when I nearly lost it completely.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Free speech latest.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I may be pinching this. Apologies.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Tunisia, Qatar and Greta Thunberg's flotilla all bombed in one day by Israel. Can everyone please recognise who the terrorist is.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I know the Democrats are idiots, but are we really expected to believe their "plan" was to forge Trump's drawing to Epstein, then pointlessly keep it secret for 22 years, right through Hilary, Obama and Biden, 2 elections and Trump's entire first term, and then wait for Republicans to leak it?
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Dame Rainbow Warrior @damerainbowwarrior.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
It is a terrible TERRIBLE look. Madness.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Morning Bluesky. UK politics has gone mad. A fringe Far Right campaign to fly flags, a woman who went to jail for urging people to set fire to refugees saying she’s a “political prisoner” and a plan to commandeer jets to deport asylum seekers. All elevated to national discourse by the media.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from. It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
andrea petkovic is a better writer than she was a tennis player, which is really saying something. her wimbledon rundown is just the loveliest, most thought-provoking thing andreapetkovic.substack.com/p/art-vs-spo...
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Art vs. Sports
In a way, Amanda Anisimova and Grigor Dimitrov were the defining stories of Wimbledon.
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
So Paramount want to be bought. Requires Govt approval. On top of other fin problems Trump sued them for 60-Mins segment. Paramount shock everyone by agreeing to settle, for $16m Colbert mocks it, calls it a bribe. Days later they cancel him. They’re just so laughably crooked.
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